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Show ITS HYPOCRITICAL BRAVADO. "Thero arc persons hero," said the Deseret News not. long ago, "on the perpetual lookout for something of the kind, who would givo a great deal for tho discovery of any such an infraction of tho law," And that, observation was, in a moment mo-ment of extreme bravado, directed by the church organ to the matter of new polygam3. It is directly in lino with its old and continued poliey of polygamous po-lygamous protection 1)3 moans of do-jiial do-jiial and suppression of tho facts. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding tho truth that thero aro more 3'oung men and 3'oung women in polvgamy in the Mormon church today to-day than there ever were at any other one period in the history of tho church, tho News would havo tho people be-Hcvo be-Hcvo that tho voiced objections of law-abiding law-abiding citizens have no reason in fact for their utterance, aud that continued contin-ued exposure of this polygamous lawlessness law-lessness is nothing more and nothing less than religious persecution and vicious attack upon a church.' s In , tho old days, when plural mar- R riagc was practiced openly by Mor- S mons here, it was tho custom to per- I mit only the older men to engage in B it. While early marriago was advo- 9 cntcd, thore was no urgency upon H young men to take moro than one wifo, I As a rule, they were permitted to on- I joy tho blessing of monogamy until H a later period, the urgency to" plural I marriago only coming after .middle- I ngo had been pnsscd. Under that con- dilion the polygnmists wero mostl3' men jj who were rather woll along in years. B But nowada3s, as tho nnmcs will show, I tho young men aro cngar-ng in now pol3'gani3 b3' tho hundreds. There is 3 nn object in permitting this, and that I is to procure moro extended perpctua- U tion of the practice on account of tho B gronter number of years 3'ct to bo I lived b3 tho criminals. I It is4 this object that the Nows seeks B to achieve' when it makes use of such I utterances as wc have quotod. 1 That paper is a partj to all these n crimos committed during tho Joseph F. 1 Smith reign. m |